Rice Flatsedge
Rice Flatsedge
Cyperus iria L.
Cyperaceae (Sedge Family)
▲ mature plants
▲ ▼ inflorescences
▲ ▼ inflorescences
Rice Flatsedge:
- summer annual sedge found in wetter row crops, nurseries, growing in clumps 6-24" tall
- stems triangular; leaves medium to light green, sometimes with pine-needle-like odor
- inflorescence a branched, green to silvery green panicle
- doesn’t have the rhizomes or tubers found on yellow nutsedge or purple nutsedge